GoLive Program for Hosters June-August 2008

Agenda Overview of Hyper-V Program Details GoLive License Overview SQL 2008 Hosting scenarios Program details

Virtualization Scenarios in Hosting Shared Hosting Better isolation for websites Adding more capacity in a shared farm Dedicated Hosting Self managed, delegated virtual instances Retire old hardware using virtualization Consolidate low end servers with fewer machines VPS Hosting Fill the gap between Shared and Dedicated scenarios Upsell Memory, CPU Managed Hosting Backup and Restore Business Continuity Test/Dev Environments

Microsofts Value Proposition Integration A feature of the OS, not a feature trying to be the OS Trusted Component of a Trusted Platform Management Extend your existing management tools to handle virtualization Manage Virtual AND physical systems Manage across multiple hypervisors and into applications Why Microsoft? Less expensive to acquire and license than the competition Harness existing infrastructure and skills – no need to start over Interoperability – with providers like Novell and XenSource Microsoft Virtualization partners add extensibility and increased ROI

Hyper-V: Licensing Free Licensed Guests with Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 Web × No Licensed Guest Windows Server 2008 Standard 1 Licensed Guest Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Up to 4 Licensed Guests Windows Server 2008 Datacenter As many Licensed Guests as you can physically run Small Print Free = free, as included in the price of the host OS with Hyper-V.Free = free, as included in the price of the host OS with Hyper-V. But you can host as many VMs on any Windows Server 2008 that supports Hyper-V as you need. You just need to License above the included free licenses.But you can host as many VMs on any Windows Server 2008 that supports Hyper-V as you need. You just need to License above the included free licenses. Small Print Free = free, as included in the price of the host OS with Hyper-V.Free = free, as included in the price of the host OS with Hyper-V. But you can host as many VMs on any Windows Server 2008 that supports Hyper-V as you need. You just need to License above the included free licenses.But you can host as many VMs on any Windows Server 2008 that supports Hyper-V as you need. You just need to License above the included free licenses.

Microsoft Deliverables to Hosters Guidance White Papers and Samples for Provisioning & De-provisioning Troubleshooting & Debugging Operations & Management Onsite planning and Architectural Design Review Capacity Planning Guides Deployment Guides FastStart Kit

Expectation from Hosters Commitment to create offers using Hyper-V technology Have resources (people and systems) to accomplish Program goals Provide scenarios for all hosting scenarios Validate collateral Perform integration with their back-end systems Attend weekly status meeting Assist in evidence gathering Provide feedback Communicate, communicate, communicate.

Schedule Overview Week 1: Hosters define requirements Document scenarios to be implemented Week 2-3: Microsoft to create collateral Hoster to provide H/W Week 3-4: Collaboratively deploy collateral necessary for go live Hosters to Integrate with backend systems Week 4: Go live

GoLive License What is it? A free license to deploy pre-release builds of Hyper-V in production Restrictions? NDA required Can I run other released software on top? Yes, please test these scenarios, but support will come from the other vendors. Can I charge for my hosting offers based on Hyper-V? Yes. You can create Shared, Dedicated and Virtual Offers using any SKU of Hyper-V Will Microsoft Support Hyper-V before release? No. There is no explicit support from Microsoft through PSS or any other established support channel. There will only be best-effort support provided by MCS for hosters in GoLive program.

SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008 SKUs Web Edition Up to 4 CPU procs Unlimited RAM & DB Size SPLA Pricing of $15-$25/proc/month Policy Based Management Performance Data Collection Warehouse Express Edition 1 CPU 1 GB RAM 4 GB Database Maximum Free PHP Driver for SQL Server Enterprise Edition Up to 128 CPU procs Transparent Data Encryption Backup Compression Resource Governor Data Compression Auditing 8 Node Failover Clustering Multi-Server Policy Based Management Database Mirroring - Full Standard Edition 2 Node Failover Clustering Database Mirroring – Safe Replication Performance Reports

SQL Server 2008 SKUs for Hosting Scenarios ScenarioTypeExpWebWkGrpStdEnt SharedBasic Offering (Stand Alone SQL Server) XX SharedHigh Availability, Advanced BI, Multi Server Mgmt XX SharedAll Advanced Features X Dedicated/VirtualBasic (Stand Alone Server) XXX Dedicated/VirtualHigh Availability, Advanced BI, Multi Server Mgmt XX Dedicated/VirtualAll Advanced FeaturesX

Microsoft Deliverables Guidance White Papers and Samples for Provisioning & De-provisioning Troubleshooting & Debugging Operations & Management Etc… On-site planning and architectural design and review Capacity Planning Guides Deployment Guides 1-4 server scenarios Load balanced/fully redundant configurations Starter Kit

SQL Server 2008 Builds CTP 6 available now Download it from the Microsoft Download CenterMicrosoft Download Center No SKU differentiation, all features are active CTP 6 Express available now Download it from the Microsoft Download CenterMicrosoft Download Center CTP Refresh comes next Will be available on the connect site Full SKU differentiation: Web, Workgroup, Standard, and Enterprise

Expectation from Hosters Provide necessary resource (people and systems) to accomplish Program goals Provide scenarios for all hosting scenarios Validate collateral Perform integration with back-end systems Attend weekly status meeting

GoLive License What is it? A free license to deploy pre-release builds of SQL Server 2008 in production Restrictions? NDA required What happens when SQL Server 2008 RTMs? The licenses need to be converted to SPLA. Can I run other released software on top? Yes, please test these scenarios, but support will come from the other vendors. Can I charge for my hosting offers based on SQL Server 2008? Yes. You can create Shared, Dedicated and Virtual Offers using any SKU of SQL Server 2008 Will Microsoft Support SQL Server 2008 before release? No. There is no explicit support from Microsoft thru PSS or any other established support channel. There will only be best-effort support provided by MCS for hosters in GoLive program

Next Steps Decide fast – limited number of seats Sign NDA Assign resources Download Collateral

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